Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 20, Decatur, Adams County, 5 August 1892 — Page 6

p ©he Jlrnunrat DaOATVR, IND. B pfcjuan»TßM, ruat.inMK P : u For Provident, ■ GROVER CLEVELAND, / OF NEW YORK. For Vico President* ADLAI E. STEVENSON, OT ILTiINOIS. McKint.kv meditates and looks Decidedly abashed; This Homestead battle to the ground His theories has dasbed. Letos explain.—Republican party. Pennsylvania furnishes the most Eloquent lesson in protection. 1 — * In the latest engagement Tom fceed may lie classed among the! “missing.” While Adlai means the “just,” Whitelaw in this campaign signifies the dust. The obnoxious and infamous force j bill hangs about the President's neck i like a millstone. Protection taxes the American pepple $10,000,000 for the privilege of using tin plate. Higher prices and lower wages— ' these are the results of the infamous McKinley bill to date. The Republican leaders are thrown ; Into delirium tremens at the very , whisper of Homestead. Gov. McKinley will probably not be requested to make anj’ speeches in Pennsylvania this year. Carnegie, being a consistent Republican, thought he would put in I operation a force bill on his private I account. Under the circumstances, it looks as if Mr. Cleveland would find no difficulty whatevejr in carrying Pennsylvania. Has Mr. John W. Foster got the : gout? Oh, no. He has to wrap his i feet up that way in order to fill Blaine’s shoes. - -L / The result of the scenes at Homestead when commented on by voters next November. may furnish Pecksniff Carnegie with a new reading of •Triumphant Democracy." Many contemporaries are remarking, “There will be no troops at the polls this year.” Certainly net. Most of them will be busy guarding the mills of protected.manufacturers. *The work Dudley and Quay did in 1888 will be managed directly from the White House in 1892, but the little man with the large hat will have a good deal of trouble this year in seeing that “none escape and that all Vote our ticket.” With the Republicans explaining their silver plank, explaining Mr. Eeid’s relations with labor, explaining the force hill plank, and explaining the McKinley bill, this promises to be a campaign of explanation entirely for that party. In one breath the McKinley organs assert that protection does not raise prices, and in the next cry out that the removal of protection would subject our manufacturers to the foreign competition from which the tariff shields them. The organs err in supposing that the American people are idiot? A Western branch of the Democratic National Committee, with headquarters at Chicago, will probably be established. The active work for Democracy projected by the Northwestern States will be an interests ng feat ure of the coming campaign, and it should be directly cared for by representatives of the National Committee, stationed on the im.medii.te field of operations. The talk about breaking the solid South is all moonshine. If Republican success did not clearly menace the South with another force bill, and? the consequent revival of the one or two of the Southern States might possibly be fighting ground. As it is there Is not the least likelihood that Mr. 'Harrison will . net a electoral wote' fife: tfe; jfet/ot Hi .country. T»’t. Lovis Ritruntyc: While ProS tectlobisti are bearing down WorkingI men’s wages tn Pennsylvania they arc energetically fordo* up the price ~ ’ of binder twine. 1 to the farmers in I lowa. The, fas mers up there make IJ vigorous protest against the advance of (wo cent* a pound on twine. Have they no gratitude? Are they

n t blessed with a high protective tax on seed wheat? m .'"jw'.'i.. aims Appeal-Avalanche: There are now 860,000 names on the Government’s pension roll, and the list is swelling at the rate of about 200,000 a year. Meantime the national treasury has become exhausted. The only salvation of the country from bankruptcy and anarchy is the ousting of the Republican party from power. Two years ago Mr. Carnegie and his men were stopping at the best Washington hotels while begging the McKinley committee togive them the most protective tariff schedule ever passed. Mr. Carnegie's agents are now seeking the indictment of the men for murder and the men are re ciprocating' as to both Mr. Carnegie and his agents. But the tariff has nothing to do with all this. The men must be taught to respect authority and to be obedient unto their masters, for this is right. If the managers of the Republican clubs connected with American colleges accept the hint of Secretary Elkins, and try to start campaign I chibs for the dissemination of high- | tariff ideas in the workshops, they ' will find ample room for their efforts at Pittsburg and its surrounding towns. This is par excellence the home of protection, and something 1 over 50,000 workmen are locked out from the protected workshops in that section because they refused to accept a reduction of wagss. , It is a curious fact that the only man that Mr. Harrison could induce to take the management of his canvass is one of his own officeholders. The bread-and-butter brigade is at the front in this campaign. There is a significance here which the public will not be slow to recognize and understand. The nomination of Harrison at Minneapolis was effected through the 130 officeholders who held the balance of power as delegates and turned the convention away from Blaine, whom the Republican masses wanted, to Harrison, whom the officeholders wanted. There seems a fatality about the selection of an efficient chairman for the Republican national committee. First there was opposition to Clarkson because he was not believed to be loyal to the nominee. Then Mr. Campbell was forced to resign because Mr. Farwell wrote one too many letters repeating one too many tales. Now there is another difficulty because of “Tom” Carter's management of the land office. Republicans would be deserving of pity were they not more worthy of the fate that has befallen them. They have cultivated the very faults they now find incompatible with high public positions. St. Louis Republic: Under the McKinley bill the wealthy people who travel in Europe can bring home large quantities of wearing apparel for personal use free of duty, While those who are too poor to go to Europe cannot get in clothing without paying taxes from 70 cents to $1.30 on the dollar’s worth. This is an outrageous discrimination and the. House ought to denounce it by resolution. When the Democratic party has power to correct it, the way to correct it will be to lessen the restrictions imposed by the McKinley bill on the importation of clothing by those who are too poor to go to Europe in person to bring it back. A Republican journal, considering the possibilities of the Presidential election being thrown into the House, fancies that the House might not be able to decide by March 4, and meantime, the Senate having chosen Mr. Reid, he would become President after March 4 until such time as the House could agree. In such contingency the House votes in the selection of a President by States. It must confine its selection to those candidates who receive votes in the electoral college. There are so few Republican States in the present House that it is not worth while enumerating them, and if anybody fancies that the large majority of Democrats on the floor of the House i would so arrange, matters as to enable Mr. Reid to become President, his views in the present campaign are not worth considering. < The formation of a club comprising 800 of the men locked out of Mr. Carnegie’s works who are pledged to vote for Cleveland is a natural result of the lock-out. The strong aversion to having their wages cut down, which these men share with all other workers for wages is sharpened by the suggestion that their Employers j are compelled to economize in wages for the sake of promoting the interests of Ameri an labor, by an enormous contribution to the Republican campaign fund. The loss of 800 or of several times SCO Republican votes tn Pennsylvania is not a matter of much moment to the Republican i-i managers Mr. Carnegie's contribuJion to tlv: campaign fund, it is to be > expected, will be spent in other and i i more doubtful Stites, where the cut- | ting down of wa;es In his works will ', have only an indirect influence.

Hit. TALMAGE'S SERMON. THIS ONB WAS PREACHED IN SCOTLAND. .■Jeauit tile Name High Over All "-The Wonderful Word-Alleviation of Human Sorrow—Dying Tevtlmoniee of Many Eminent Men. Pre-eminent Jesus. Since his return to London from Russia Dr. Talmage has been literally flooded with invitations to address congregations and lyceums on the snbject of his journey to the land of the Czar, whither ho went with Mr. Louis Klopsch to direct the distribution of The Christian Herald relief cargo. While expressing his high appreciation of the cordial welcome and splendid hospitality extended by the officials of St. Petersburg and Moscow, of the civic honors heaped upon the American visitors and of Russia’s national gratitude to America, as personally expressed by the czarowltz at Peterhof, where he entertained them as guests, Dr. Talmage has been compelled to adhere to his original program. During the week he has been preaching in the leading Scottish cities. His arrangements for next week include services at Newcastle and Sunderland, and thereafter he goes to the Isle of Man for a few days. The sermon selected for this week is entitled •‘Pre-eminent,” the text being John Hi, 31, “He that conieth from above is above all.” The most conspicuous character of history steps out upon the platform. The finger which, diamonded with lights pointed down to Him from the Bethlehem sky, was only a ratification of the finger of prophecy, the finger ot genealogy, the finger of chronology, the finger of events —all five fingers pointing In one direction. Christ is the overtopping figure of all time. He is the vox humane in all music, the gracefulest line in all sculpture, the most exquisite mingling of lights and shades In all painting, the acme of all climates, the dome of all cathedraled grandeur and the peroration of all splendid language, The Greek alphabet is made up of twenty-fonr letters, and when Christ compared Himself to the first letter and the last letter, the alpha and the omega, He appropriated to Himself all the splendors that you can spell out either with those two letters, and all letters 1 between them. “1 am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, i the first and the last.” “Or, if you pre- i fer the words of the text, “above all.” It means, after you have piled up all ! 1 Alpine and Himalayan altitudes, the glory of Christ would have to spread its wings and descend a thousand leagues to touch those summits. Pelion, a high mountain of Thessaly; Ossa, a high mountain, and Olympus, a high mountain; but mythology tells us when the . giants warred against the gods they piled up these three mountains and from the ' top of them prdposed to scale the heavens; but the height was not groat enough and there was a complete failure. And after all the giants—lsaiah and Paul, prophetic and apostolic giants; Raphael and Michael Angelo, artistic giants; cherubim and seraphim and arch-angel, celestial giants—have , failed to climb to the top of Christ's ■ glory, they might all well unite in the ; words of the text and say, “He that cometh’from above is above all.” First," Christ must be above all else in our preaching. There are so many books 1 on homiletics scattered through the i world that . all laymen, as well as all clergyman, have made up their minds what sermons ought to be. 'That sermon is most effectual which most pointedly puts forth Christ as the pardon of all sin and the correction of al! evil, individual, social, political, national. There is no reason why we should ring the endless changes of a few phrases. There are those who think that If an exhortation or a discourse have frequent mention of justification, sanctification, covenant of works and covenant of grace, that, therefore it must be profoundly evangelical, while they are suspicious of a discourse which presents the same truth,but under different phraseology. Now. I say there is nothing in all the opulent realm of Anglo-Saxonism or all the word treasures that we inherited from the Latin and the Greek and the Indo-European but we have a right to marshal it in religious discussion. Christ sets the example. His illustrations were from the grass, the flowers, the spittle, the salve, the barnyard fowl, the crystals of salt, as well as from the seas and the stars, aud we do not propose in our Sabbath school teaching and in our pulpit address to be put on the limits. 1 know that there is a great deal said in our day against words, as though they were nbthing. They may be Misused, but they have an imperial power. They are. the bridge between soul and soul, between Almighty God and the human race. What did God write upon the tables of stones? Words. What did Christ utter on Mount Olivet? Words. Out of what did Christ strike the spark for the illumination of the universe? Out of words. “Let there be light,” and light was. Os course thought is the cargo and words are only the ship, but how fast would your cargo get on without the ship? What you need, my friends, In all your work, in your Sabbath-school class, in your reformatory institutions, and what we all need is to enlarge our vocabulary wheh we come to speak about God and Christ and Heaven. We ride a few old words to death when there is such illimitable resource. Shakespeare employed fifteen thousand different words for dramatic purposes. Milton employed eight thousand different words for poetic purposes; Rufus Choate employed over eleven thousand different words for legal purposes, but the most of us have less than a thousand words that we can manage, less than live hundred, and that makes us so stupid. When we come to sot forth the love of (Christ we are going to take the tenderest phraseology wherever we find it, and if it has never been used in that direction before, all the more shall we use it. When we come to speak of the glory of Christ, the conqueror, we are going to draw our similes from triumphal arch and oratorio and everything grand and ; stupendous. The French Navy have eighteen flags by which they give signal, but those eighteen flags they can put into sixty-six thousand different combinations. And 1 have to tell you that these standards of the cross may be lifted Into combinations infinite and varieties everlasting. And let me say to young men who are after awhile going to preach Jesus Christ, you will have the largest liberty and unlimited resource. You only have to present Christ in your own way. Johnathan Edwards preached Christ ft: the severest argument ever penned, aud John Bunyan preached Christ In the sub 11mest allegory ever composed. Edward Payson, sick and exhausted, leaned up against the side of the pulpit and wept out his discourse, while George Whitefield, with the manner and the voice and the start of an actor, overwhelmed his auditory. Jtwrfuld have been a different thing if Jonathan Edwards had tried to write and dream about the pilgrim’s progress to the celestial city or John Bunyan had attempted ait essay on the human will. Brighter than the light, fresher than thi-fountains, deeper than the aeas are all these Gospel themea Scot has no

a has no color, compared with these is theme*. These harvests of spring up quicker than we can sickle them.',) Kindling pulpits with their fire, producing revolutions with their poweft lighlkng up dying bods with their n glory, they are the sweetest thoughts tor a I the poet, and they are the most thrilling illustration for thenrator, and they offer the moat intense scene for the artist, and they are to the embassador of the sky all enthusiasm. Complete pardon for direst guilt Sweetest comfort for ghastliest « hope for grimmest death. Grandest resurrection for dark- ( est sepulcher. i Oh, what a Gospel topreach! Christ , over ail In It. His birth. His suffering, ; His miracles. His parables. His sweat , His tears, His blood. His atonement His . Intercession—what glorious themes! Do we exercise faith? Christ is its object Do we have love? It fastens on Jesus, Have we a fondness for the church? It Is because Christ died for it Have we a hope of Heaven? It is because Jesus went aheau, the herald and the forerunner. The royal r6bo of Demetrius was so costly, so beautiful, that after he had put it off no one dared tv put it on; but this role of Christ, richer than that the poorest, and the wanest and the worst may wear. “Where sin abounded grace may much more abound. “ “Oh, my sins, my sins.” said Martin Luther to Staunitx; “my sius, my sins!” The fact that the brawny German student had found a Latin Bible that had made him quake, and nothing else ever did make him quake; ami when he found how, through Christ, he was pardoned and saved, he wrote to a friend, saying: “Como over and join us great and awful sinners saved by the grace of God. You seem to be only a slender sinner, and you don’t much extol the mercy of God; but we who have I een such very awful sinners praise His grace the more now that we have been redeemed.” Can it bo that you are so desperately egotistical that you feel yourself in first rate spiritual trim, and that from the root of the hair to the tip of the toe you are scarless and immaculate? What you need is a looking glass, and here it is in the Bible. Poor and wretched and miserable and blind and naked from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot, fml of wounds and putrefying sores. No health in us. Add then take the fact that Christ gathered up all the notes against us and then paid them, and then offered us the receipt And how much we need him in oursorrows! We ate independent of circumstances if we have His grace. Why, He made Paul sing in the dungeon, and under that grace St. John from desolate Patmos heard the blast of the apocalyptic trumpets. After all other candles have been snuffed out, this is the light that gets brighter and brighter unto the perfect day. and after, under the hard hoofs of calamity, all the pools of worldly enjoyment have been trampled into deep mire, at the foot of the eternal rock the Christian, from cups of granite, lily rimmed and vine covered, puts out the thirst of uis soul. Again, I remark that Christ is above al! In dying alleviations. 1 have not any sympathy with the morbidity abroad about our demise. The emperor of Constantinople arranged that on the day of ■ his coronation the stonemason should ; come and consult him about his tomb- ; stone that after awhile bo would need. And there are men who are monomanical on the subject of departure from this life by death, and the more they think ■of it the less they are prepared to go. I This is an unmanliness not worthy ot you, not worthy of me. Saladin, the greatest conqueror of his day, while dying, ordered the tunic he had on him to be carried after his death on a spear at the head of his army, and then the Soldier ever and anon should stop and say: “Behold, all that is left of Saladin, the emperor and conqueror! Os all thestates he conquered, of all the wealth he accumulated, nothing d<d be retain but this shroud!” I have no sympathy with such behavior, or such absurd demonstration, or with much that we hear uttered in regard to departure from this life to the next There is a commonsensical idea on this subject that j you and I need to consider—that there are only two styles of departure. A thousand feet underground, by light of torch toiling in a miner's shaft, a ledge of rock may fail upon us and we may die a miner’s death. Far out at sea, falling from the slippery ratlines and bro Ken on the halyarps we may die a sailor’s death. On mission of mercy in hospital, amid broken bones and reeking leprosies and raging fevers we may die a philantbrophist's death. On the field of battle, serving God and our country, the gun carriage a: ay roll over us and we may din * patriot's death. But after all there are omy two styles of departure—the death .of the righteous and the death of the wicked, and we all want to die the former. God grant that when that hour comes you may be at home! You want the hand of yonr kindred in your hand. You want your children to surround you. 1 You want the lighton your pillow from eyes that have long reflected your love. 1 You want the room still. You do not ' want any curious strangers standing around watching you. You want your kindred from afar to hear your last prayer. I chink that is the wisn of all ■ of us. But is that all? Can earthly friends hold us when the billows of death , come up to the girdle? Can human voice ■ charm open Heaven’s gate? Can human 1 hands pilot us through tbo narrows of I death into Heaven’s harbor? Can aa i earthly friendship shield us from the ■ arrows of death and in the hour when i satan shall practice upon us his infernal I archery? No, no, no, no! Alas! poor : soul, if that is all. Better die in the ■ wilderness, far from tree shadow and I fountain, alone, vulture circling through i the air waiting for our body, unknown i to men, and to have no burial, if only I Christ could say through the solitudes, “1 will hover leave thee, I will never ! forsake thee.? From- that pillow- of t stone a ladder would soar Heavenward, ! angels coming and going; and across the i solitude and the barrenness would come the sweet notes of heavenly minstrelsy, f Gordon Hall, far from home, dying in > the door of a heathen temple, said, i “Glory to Thee. O God!” What did dyl; Ing Wilberforce say to his wife? “Como ■ and sit beside me, and let us talk of , Heaven. I never know what happiness t was until I found Christ.” What did - dyfng Hannah More say?- “To go to i Heavin; think what that is! To go to > Christ, who died that I might live! Oh, - glorious grave! Oh, what a glorious i thing It is to die! Ob, the love of Christ, i the love of Christ!” What did Mr. Topt lady, the great hymn maker, say in his i last hour? “Who can measure the depth i of the third Heaven? Oh, the sunshine that fills my soul! I shall soon be gone, . for surely no one can live In this world j after such glories as God has manifested . to inv soul.” 11 Wnat did the dying?Faneway say? “I > can as easily die as closi my eyes or turn t mv head In sleep. Before a few hours - have passed I shall stand on Mount Zion I with the one hundred and forty and four s thousand, and with the just men made t perfect, and wo shall ascribe riches and o honor and glory and majesty and domins ion unto God and tbo Lgnih.” Dr. Tayit lor, condemned to num at the stake, oq e bls way thither broke away .from the guardsmen and wont bounding Slid leapn ing and lumping toward the fire,, glad to e go to Jesus and to die tor Him. Sir o Charles Hare In hls lastmoiuoni bad such

And sd groat was the poa’e of one of Christ’s disciples that he put his fingers upon the pulse In his wrist and counted it and observed it; and so great was his placidity that after awhile he said, “Stopped," und his life had ended here tn begin in Heaven. But grander than that was the testimony ot tho worn ont first missionary when in the Marmatlne dungeon he cried: "1 am now ready to be offered, and tho time of my departure Is at hand; I have fought tho good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith; henceforth there is laid up for mo a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, tho righteous judge, will give mo in that day, and not to mo only, but to all them that lovu His appearing!” De you not see that Christ is above all in dying alleviations? Toward the last hour of our earthly residence wo are speeding, When I see the suusot, “One day less to live.” Wbofi I see the spring blossoms scattered I say, “Another season gone forever." When I close this Blbio on Sabbath night I say, "Another Sabbath departed.” When I bury a frisnd 1 say, “Another earthly attraction gone forever.” Whot nimble feet tho years have' The roebucks and tbo lightnings run not so fast. From decade to decade, from sky to sky, they go at a bound. There Is a place for us, whether marked or not, whore you and I will sleep the last sleep, and the mon are now living who will, with solemn troad, carry us to our resting place. Aye, it is known in Heaven whether our departure will be a coronation or a banishment. Brighter than a banqueting hall through which the light teet of tho dancers go up and down to tho sound of trumpeters will be tho sepulcher through whose rifts tho holy light ot heavon streamoth. God will watch you. Ho wilt send His angels to guard your slumbering ground until, at Christ’s behest, they shall roll away tne stone. So also Christ Is above all In Heaven. The Bible distinctly says that Christ is" the chief theme of the celestial ascription, all the thrones facinir His throne, all the palms waved before His face, all the crowns down at His loot. Cherubim to cherubim, seraphim to seraphim, redeemed spirit to redeemed spirit shall recite the Saviour's earthly sacrifice. Stand on some high hill of Heaven, and in all the radiant sweep the most glorious object will be Jesus. Myriads gazing on tbo scars of His suffering, in silence first, afterward breaking forth into ac-4 clamation. The martyrs, all the purer for tho flame through which they passed, will say, "This is Jesus, for whom we died.” The apostles, all the happier for the shipwreck and the scourging through which they went, will say, “This is tho Jesus whom we preached at Corinth, and at Cappadocia, and at Antioch, and at Jerusalem.” Little children clad In white will sav, “This is the Jesus who took us in His arms and blessed us, and when the storms of the world were too cold nnd loud, brought us into this beautiful place.” The multitudes of the bereft will say, “This is the Jesus who comforted us when our hearts broke.’’ Many who had wandered clear off from God and plunged into vagabondism. < ut were saved by grace, will say: “This is tho Jesus who pardoned us. We were lost on the mountains, and He brought us home. Wo wore guilty, and He made us white as snow.” Mercy boundless, grace unparalleled. And then, after each one has recited his peculiar deliverances and peculiar mercies, recited them as by solo, all the voices will come together in a great chorus, which shall make the arches echo and re-echo with tho eternal reverberation of gladness and peace and triumph. Edward I was so anxious to go'to the Holy Land that when he was about to expire he bequeathed Jl6o,oqp to have his heart after his decease taken to the Holy Land in Asia Minor, and his request was compiled with. But there are hundreds to-day whose hearts are already in the holy land of Heavon. Where your treasures are there are your hearts also. John Bunyan, of whom I spoke at the opening of the discourse, caught a glimpse of that place, and in his quaint way he said: “And I heard in mv dream, and Io! the bells of the city rang again for joy; and-as they opened the gates to let in the men I looked In after them, and io! the city shone like the sun, and there were streets of gold, and men walked on them, harps in their hands, to sing praises with all; and after that they shut up the gates, which when I had seen I wished myself among them!” Electricity In the Human Body. Accidents often occur in mining from the electricity that accumulates in the human body. On a dry winter day in the high altitudes one is likely to bo surprised at any time by » spark darting from his finger when the member is brought in contact with a good conductor. The process of writing with a lead pencil on rough paper will give rise to peculiar electrical phenomena. When a man has walked home swinging his arms in a heavy coat there will often be a snap when he reaches out to grasp the door-knob. Woolen undor-clotbing also acts as a generator, and, on every hand, there are agencies charging the body with the electrical fluid. A miner wearing woolen clothes will walkout to where his ammunition is stored, and, reaching for a detonating cap, cause a mysterious explosion by which he may lose his life or be seriously crippled.— Idaho Statesmen- , Astonishing Heart Beats. The workings of the human heart have been computed by acelebrated physiologist, and demonstrated that it is equal to the lilting of 120 tons in riyentyfour hours. Presuming that the blood is thrown out of the heart at each pulsation in the proportion of sixty-nine strokes per minute, and at the assumed force of nine feet, tho mileage of the blood through the body might bo taken at 207 yards per minute, 7 miles per hour, 168 miles per day, 61.320 miles per year, or 5,150,880 miles In a lifetime of eighty-four years. In tho same period of time the heart must beat 2,860,776,000 times. Paradoxical. Lawyer Holdem—-You say you were never in Dublin? Mrs. McGuirk—Of wor not. Lawyer Holdem—How do you account for this document, which says you was there in eighteen-seventy? Mr*. McGuirk—Thot wor me daughter, nor. She wor bor-rn there about thol time. —Judge, Malting War on Mice. ■ At least one Scotch farmer ha* set t< work in real earnest to stamp out tbs mice plague. Mr. John Scott of Lang shawburn, ha? an army ot 100 cat* and twelve terriers constantly at work on bls farm- 'Since last year he ba*, he calcu lates, reduced the number of mice in tin proportion of 100 to L Tho Doctor Was ThonghtTnl. I guess Pm about well, ain't Doctor—Almost Patient—What’s my bill? Doctor—You’re not quite stron; enough for that yet.—Detroit Free Press Plenty of Wind of Their Own. “I hear that South Dakota will exhlbf a cyclone In operation at the World' Fair.” “Pshaw! It will never be noticed ii Chicago. ’’—Puck. Lj- __

DETAILS OF A BIG FIRE. I •AY CITY’S LOSS FROM THE CONFLAGRATION. forty Bualnesa and Meelileiioo Block" Were Burned — The Total Loss ■«Hmaied at Over a Million Dollars—Outside Aid Will Be Needed. Many Are Momeleu. Bay City. Mich., special: The great eonfiagration which swept over forty blocks of business and residence prop»rty in the south end of the city yesteri»y afternoon completed the work of destruction at midnight when the flames had reached the eastern limit* of the oity. At that hour a few houses were •bill burning, but the wind had gone iown and the local flre department, enlisted by re-enforoemonts from West Bay City, Saginaw and I lint, had tho aonflagration under control. After the adjournment of tho Common Council last evenb g a number of wealthy citizens subscribed several aundred dollars for the temporary relief st families whose homes had been destroyed. A committee was appointed io purchase and distribute provisions. They immediately sot to work, and, after purchasing the stock of several restaurants, proceeded to the camp of the homeless with a couple of dray-loads of provisions. Eatables wore apportioned among tho sufferers, and at midnight, in the glare ot flames which lighted the firmament, nearly one thousand people partook of the first food they had tasted since they ate their noonday meal. The scene on tho commons, where the people were huddled guarding the few personal effects they had saved, was one of desolation. Buch bedding as had been preserved was arranged on the sod and allotted to women who had infante to care for. To the northward, extending over half a mile and from two to five blocks wide, lay a waste of burning embers where less than twelve hours before had stood hundreds of happy homes. At the break of day the scene changed to one ot activity. The men left tho groups and proceeded to the ruins in a vain attempt to recover property overlooked by the flames, while women and children busied themselves assorting furniture and securing their personal effecs from the general mass. Never did a tiro do cleaner work than this one which swept through the city yesterday. Within the burned locality not a house is left standing, while every tree is stripped of foliage and left bare. Many trees wore blown over by the fierce wind that prevailed while i the conflagration at its height, and which carried the fire brands far to the oast, igniting the woods and the prairies in many places. EHtlmating the .Losses, It will require several days to ascertain precisely how many buildings were consumed. The total loss is somewhere around $1,009,009. This afternoon the most conservative estimate places the I number of houses burned at 350, while I many persons acquainted with the dis- ; trict declare that fully 500 were destroyed. The loss at Miller & Turner’s manufacture;; plant will reach $200,000. These figures include 10,000,000 feet of lumber owned by Joseph Turner and Bpencer, of Fisher. The lumber was insured for $95,000 and represents a loss of about $150,000. Albert Miller, senior member of the firm, loses everything. His fine residence, situated lon Thirtieth street, lay directly in the path of the flre and was reduced to ashes within an hour after the conflagration broke out. Stover & Larkins, hardware merchants, suffer to' the extent of $15,000, with SB,OOO insurance. Trisk & Forcia lose a general stock, valued at $15,000. A. B. Gould had a small hotel and five dwellings burned, -all valued at $7,000. George Turner, 8. Beards, J. Kelly, Thomas Beilly, P. M. Whipple, F. H. Mason, Arthur Barker, James Larkin, A. Gosler, Charles F. Webb, Mrs. H. Marble, Mrs. Jane Clarke, Duncan McGregor, Jesse M. Miller, William Wright, Samuel Cussons, Andrew Miller, Mrs. Crompton. William Willis, R. McLaughlin, James Stevenson, Mrs. Charles Randall, C. H. Tuttle, A. J. Stanley, Calqin Hewitt, and Mrs. Southworth all lose houses running In value fromsl,ooo t 055,000. Nearly all of these parties are insured. The Baptist Church which was burned was a modest structure worth $2,500, with light insurance. The Methodist Church was valued at $5,000; insured for $2,500. A. M. Miller & Co., lumber dealers, place their loss at $60,000, with an insurance of (40,000. The flrm of Miller & Turner lose on mill, salt blocks, docks, etc., (60,000. They claim to be fully protected. There were at least 350 houses destroyed belonging to other parties, each of which, with their furnishings, represented SI,OOO. The majority of the tatter belonged to Polish families, and as far as can be learned the most of them were not insured. Hundreds of families whose homes are not destroyed suffer losses by reason of removing their furniture in anticipation of being burned out. As always happens on such occasions, thieves and burglars were about, ready to ply their nefarious calling when opportunity offered. Five pillagers were arrested by the police, and now lie in the city lockup. So far as is positively known, no lives were lost. Several perbons were seriously burned, but none fatally. Belief Needed for the Poor. A mass meeting of citizen#, has been called, and means will be devised for affording permanent relief to the homeless. Mayor Llnon, of Saginaw, has offered aid in behalf of his municipality. The first fatality resulting from the flre has just come to light It was learned that Jesse M. Miller, an old i and respected citizen, was missing. A search among the debris of his dwelling resulted in the finding of his teeth aud ■ a few chhrred bones. Lying close by ' the remains were several gold coins. It is supposed that he arrived at his home • to find it in flames, and, rushing inside to rescue his gold, he was overcome by heat and smoke. Searching parties are going about at present among the ruins, i but it is not believed that any more persons have perished. e—————. Six Men Shrf to Dontli. • Galveston (Tex.) dispatch; Parties in from the frontier report that six of the robbers who recoufly attacked Quar.y I Foreman C. H. Wood near Trespidras, on the Mexican International Road, and who attemp’ed Io murder him and afterwar robbed his oar, have been arrested > by ruralls, or Mexican rangers, who, > after identifying the men by stolen prop- ■ erty upon their persons, took; them out 1 a short distance from the main track i and put the entire number to death. The - robbers were ahot and their bodies left • where they fell. Mrs. P. T. Barnum, the widow of the - great showman, has been appointed a 1 member of the Board of Lady Managers of the World’s Fair. Mrs. Barnum, *inee the death of her husband, has resided in Bridgeport, Conn., where she I Ilves in the luxury befitting a princess. Her apartments are a litle bit of Versailles, the decorations and furnishings being fine samples of the most exquisite t French art. She is a comely young . matron, with a winsome presence. The story ot her marriage to Mr. Barnuu Is full of romance, and their wedded life was singularly felicitous.;

Alice Mltohl'l, the murderess of Freda Ward, hae been declared insane by

ALICS MITCHILL.

ger tho poaco of the community to set Alice at liberty, so she will at once be conveyed to the asylum for the insans at Bolivar. This verdict does not absolve the defendant from being yet placed on trial for her life at some future time, should she recover her reason and the Attorney General should see fit to prosecute her. The verdict has nothing to do with her sanity at the time she killed Freda Ward. It touches her present sanity alone. The only question involved, was: “Is the defendant, Alice Mitchell, now in such a mental condition as to enable her to confer with her counsel so as to Intelligently conduct her defense oja a trial for the murder?" The jury’s answer by its verdict Is “No," and as the law forbids the trial of an insane person the indictment against her must be retired until such time as she is declared sane, or it may be nolle prossed at the discretion of the Attorney General and the court. If the defendant does not recover sanity her confinement will be for life. If at any time she is declared sane she is not to be set at liberty until action is taken on the indictment pending against her. Detailing the Murder. Without a tremor iiv- her voice and with a coolness that was remarkable, Alice Mitchell told on the witness stand how she deliberately cut Freda Ward’s throat She said: "I took the razor out While going down the hill. When I reached Freda I cut her with the razor. I cut her throat first; that was the first cut I gave her. As I cut her throat she tried to say ‘Oh,’ or Something like that. Then I heard a scream. I don’t know who screamed; it was Jo Ward or Miss Purnell. Then Jo hit me with an umbrella and said, ‘You dirty dog.’ I saw she was going to hit me with this umbrella again and I struck at her with the razor in my hand. I cut her, I thought, on the chin. I didn't mean to cut her. When' she said 'You dirty dog’ It made me mad, and I didn't know what I was doing. I' intended to cut Freda’s throat and then cut mine, but Jo made me mad and I ran after Freda and cut her again. I didn’t mean to cut her up that way. I had cut her throat, and all I wanted to do was to cut her so as to kill her. ” When asked by Attorney General. Peters if she did not know It was wr. ng for young ladies to marry, she replied:- “Yes; but I thought if I dressed like n.man no one would know the difference. I Intended to take her to St. Louis and work for her." WHAT CONGRESS HAS DONE. Little Accoinp Uhed AMde from Pastiing Appropriation BIIIn. The future compiler of the official history of the laws of tho United Staten will not need much space in which to inscribe the really Important laws enacted by the first session ot the Llld congress, says a Washington correspondent. The session has not, been remarkable for its actual accomplishments so far as respects large legislation. Efforts more or less vigorous have been made to pass through both house*, of Congress bills dealing with questions' that occupy a large share of public attention, but these, with a single ex cep-, tion, have failed of accomplishment. The sole measure of the first class in. importance, not counting the appropriation bills which have become a law, is the Chinese exclusion bill, and political expediency has much to do with Its rapid Congressional progress. This bill, the Inman registry bill, the Black Hawk and Seminole Indian wars pension bill, the eight-hour bill, the bill to enable the President to enforce reciprocal canal arrangements with Canada, the army nurse bill, the intermediate pension bill, and the bill to increase the pay 6f life-savers are about the ouly measures of much general Interest enacted into law. Free silver, the tariff, the anti-option bill, retrenchment of appropriations and a $5,000,000 loan to tho World’s Faib have been the live topics of the session. The first three subjects have been killed, at least until after the election, while the last is still before Congress. The House passed approximately 475 bills, of which 284 were passed by the Senate and sent to the President. O. the bills passed by the House 220 were public bills, including measures relating to the District of Columbia; 151 private pension bills; 48 bills to remove chargesjof desertion; and 41 private bills of a miscellaneous character. The Squate passed 691 bills, only 113 of which succeeded in running the gantlet of the House and reaching the President. Two of the latter number tha President vetoed, viz., the bill to send the famous McGarrahm claim to the Court of Claims for adjudication and' a bill to amend the Court of Appeals atet. Three bills the President permitted to a become laws without his signature. The noteworthy feature of the private bills which became laws was the large percentage of them relating to services In the Mexican war, the Indian war* and the war of 1812, the beneficiaries being chiefly Southern men. The Bering Sea trouble with Great Britain was tho ugliest complication the Senate had to consider behind closed <’oors, and a peaceful solution es it was found in Ite reference to an arbitration commission. The Chilian muddle also occupied some ot the Senate’s attention in exbeutlve session. <• / The total number of bills and joint resolutions introduced in the Houre wax 9,835, and in the Senate 3,604. In th* House 2,106 reports were made on bill*, and in the Senate 1,097 written report* were made, no notice being paid to unwritten reports. Aside from the passage of the regular . annual appropriation bills the most**" ' iuteresting feature of the Congress har been what it did not do rather tb 4 * whatit'.did. / l Mitoellaneoua NatM. / The hpy who weeds his garden well i* pretty apt to wed well later o»A cmrtPEß ship for year is required to move California * surplus wheat to Europe. Dix—How old was your wife when you were married? flicks— Twentysix. "And that was ten years "go; eha must be 86 now?" 'No; shea 2 j now. Hu sb ANDf—Which shall it be Beatrice —the diamond* or a brougham? I' can't give you both. Wife ,he*ltatinglyl—l think I’d like—well, one bracelet and a dogcart. ' Do not seelh happiness in what is misnamed pleasure; seok’it, rather, in what 1 is teimed studk Kesp your conscience , clear, your curfpslty fitvsh, and embrace 1 I every opportunity of cultivating your V ■

n jury in the Hhelby County Criminal Court at Memphis, Tenn. After receiving the charge of the judge it took the jury just twenty min-b-utes to arrive 1 at a conolus- ' ion. The verdict carried with it the opinion that it would endan-